{"id":31395,"date":"2024-08-26T02:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T07:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=31395"},"modified":"2024-08-26T02:56:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T07:56:05","slug":"deadpool-and-alien-top-charts-again-as-blink-twice-sees-quiet-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=31395","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Deadpool\u2019 and \u2018Alien\u2019 top charts again as \u2018Blink Twice\u2019 sees quiet opening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 In a sleepy summer weekend at the box office, holdovers reigned supreme as newcomers landed without a splash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDeadpool & Wolverine\u201d<\/a> reclaimed first place at the North American box office in its fifth weekend with $18.3 million. Its cumulative international earnings now sit at over $1.2 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Walt Disney Co., which owns 20th Century Studios, claimed the top two spots on the charts for the second weekend in a row with \u201cAlien: Romulus\u201d<\/a> following close behind the foul-mouthed superhero movie. The latest installment in the 45-year-old franchise brought in $16.2 million in its second weekend after a promising opening. Disney\u2019s \u201cInside Out 2\u201d<\/a> also remained on the charts, raking in $2.1 million domestically in its 11th weekend. Its global earnings are now over $1.6 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is an incredible turnaround for Disney, who almost fell off the radar, shockingly enough, last year and over the course of the pandemic,\u201d said Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for Comscore. \u201cThey got a couple of billion-dollar films out so far and \u2018Moana 2\u2019 is still up on the way. This is a huge comeback year for Disney \u2013 no question about it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Romantic drama\u00a0\u201cIt Ends With Us,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0another repeat chart-topper, landed in third place for the second consecutive weekend with $11.9 million. The Sony movie starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, who also directed, has made $242.6 million to date globally. It cost only $25 million to produce.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new releases were victim to the crowded movie marketplace, resulting in what Dergarabedian called \u201cbox office d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu,\u201d with the familiar films dominating and making it harder for the new releases to find their footing. Dergarabedian says the upcoming Labor Day holiday will likely benefit the newer titles as word-of-mouth spreads and more people head to theaters during the long weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBlink Twice,\u201d<\/a> directed by Zo\u00eb Kravitz and starring her life partner Channing Tatum, saw a modest opening, taking in $7.3 million and claiming fourth place on the charts. The Amazon MGM Studios psychological thriller follows Tatum as tech magnate Slater King, who whisks two women away to his private island. While it may seem like a picture-perfect vacation at first, much more sinister events unfold as the visitors learn the truth about the island and the billionaire. The film\u2019s budget has been reported at $20 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reviews have been mixed, with audiences giving the film a B- CinemaScore, but the film has been deemed Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with a 79% score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rounding out the top five was \u201cThe Forge,\u201d a faith-focused coming-of-age movie about a young man finding his way through Christianity. The film opened with $6.6 million and received an A+ CinemaScore from audiences. It was released by Affirm Films, Sony\u2019s faith-based banner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another new release, \u201cThe Crow,\u201d was beat out by \u201cTwisters\u201d and \u201cCoraline\u201d in the rankings. \u201cTwisters\u201d entered its sixth week with $6.2 million in domestic earnings and \u201cCoraline,\u201d which was re-released for its 15th anniversary last week, brought in an additional $5.1 million in its second weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lionsgate\u2019s \u201cThe Crow,\u201d an R-rated adaptation of the acclaimed graphic novel and a remake of the 1994 film of the same name, opened with $4.6 million. The studio also floundered in August with the release of \u201cBorderlands,\u201d an adaptation of the video game, which made $15.2 million over three weekends compared to its reported $120 million budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To complete the \u201ctale of the holdovers,\u201d as Dergarabedian put it, \u201cDespicable Me 4\u201d and \u201cInside Out 2\u201d closed out the top 10 films of the weekend, bringing in $4.4 million and $2.1 million, respectively. \u201cInside Out 2\u201d has been on the charts for 11 consecutive weekends and remains the No. 1 animated film of all time globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 In a sleepy summer weekend at the box office, holdovers reigned supreme as newcomers landed without a splash. \u201cDeadpool & Wolverine\u201d reclaimed first place at the North American box office in its fifth weekend with $18.3 million. Its cumulative international earnings now sit at over $1.2 billion. The Walt Disney Co., which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5782],"tags":[8779,29928],"class_list":["post-31395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ep","tag-alien","tag-deadpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31397,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31395\/revisions\/31397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}